Schopenhauer – Critique de la causalité kantienne
According to Schopenhauer, Kant makes two mistakes in his theory of causality: 1) Schopenhauer criticizes Kant for applying the category of causality to the thing in itself, which, as a matter of fact, is not compatible with the Kantian thesis according to which categories are only valid for the wor...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Éditions Kimé
2016-02-01
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| Series: | Philosophia Scientiæ |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/1153 |
| Summary: | According to Schopenhauer, Kant makes two mistakes in his theory of causality: 1) Schopenhauer criticizes Kant for applying the category of causality to the thing in itself, which, as a matter of fact, is not compatible with the Kantian thesis according to which categories are only valid for the world as a representation and not for the thing in itself. If, in addition, the thing in itself is an unknown entity, it is not possible to maintain that it “affects” the subject thus producing sensory data either. – 2) Schopenhauer thinks that, according to Kant, every objective succession is a succession of events linked by a causal relation. Although Schopenhauer is right in underlining that not every event which precedes another is the cause of the latter, his criticism is erroneous insofar as Kant does not speak of a succession of two events but rather of a succession of two states of one and the same thing. |
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| ISSN: | 1281-2463 1775-4283 |